The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 691

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Battle of Songhu was the largest battle between the Celestial Empire and the Foot Basin since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.

The two sides fought fiercely over the estuary of the Yangtze River and the Songhu area.

At the end of 192, as the Japanese offensive in the Northeast gradually made progress, they won the Battle of Fengtian and began to gradually control the entire Northeast, which greatly alleviated the problem of insufficient resources that had been plaguing the Foot Basin.

The rich mineral resources and land resources in the Northeast solved the problems of food shortage and insufficient industrial resources in the Foot Basin.

The reserves of Anshan Iron Mine reached tens of billions of tons.

Such a huge amount can not only fully meet the industrial needs of the Foot Basin, but also greatly improve their steel production capacity, allowing their industrial development to be accelerated in all directions!

Historically, the Foot Basin made rapid progress because it occupied the Northeast and obtained the vast land and rich resources here.

At this time, although the foot basin had not yet had time to completely occupy and digest these areas, after they tasted the sweetness in the Northeast, whether it was the young soldiers who wanted to climb up through military merit, or the politicians who wanted to gain merit, or even the nuclear emperor himself who was determined to expand the territory!

They all changed from being hesitant before to being firm supporters of the war!

Not only the upper class, but also a large number of ordinary people in the lower class of the foot basin were extremely eager to participate in the war!

The reason for this is that the land resources in the foot basin are very scarce, which makes the life of the lower class extremely difficult. The Celestial Empire is vast and rich in resources. There are millions of square kilometers of arable land alone, and they are all fertile plains!

After the black soil resources in the three northeastern provinces were explored, it immediately caused a wave of land reclamation among the entire foot basin. Organized by the government, a large number of farmers and young and middle-aged people who had no land or could not make it in the country ran to the northeast of the Celestial Empire with their families to reclaim land and live and work in peace and contentment.

They occupied a large amount of the most fertile land in the Northeast, because the arable land area in the Northeast was so large that almost every farmer who came here early could get hundreds of acres or even hundreds of acres of fertile black soil!

This kind of treatment is impossible to enjoy in their own country for 10,000 years.

Moreover, as an occupied area, the status of the local people in the Celestial Empire is very low.

They are used and oppressed like livestock.

Therefore, these people who were originally at the bottom of society in the Fontainebleau country, after arriving in a foreign country, their social status has suddenly improved a lot.

Not only did they get land, but they could also bully the local Celestial Empire people with their Fontainebleau identity and ride on the Celestial Empire people to bully them!

This kind of treatment immediately caused a wave of immigration in the entire foot basin.

From the second half of 927 to the end of April 1928, more than 3 million foot basin people rushed into the northeast of the Celestial Empire, where they raced and enclosed land, and took a large amount of land belonging to the Celestial Empire farmers as their own, making the Celestial Empire farmers their slaves, farming for them, and working for them, while they themselves did not have to do anything, just lying comfortably and enjoying it!

With such a successful example in front of them, all the lowest people in the entire foot basin became extremely fanatical about the war!

A northeast region can absorb a limited population, at most one person can be settled. If there are more people, the local population of the Celestial Empire is not enough for them to enslave, and there is not enough land for the number of people!

However, the Northeast region only occupies a small part of the Celestial Empire’s 11.5 million square kilometers of land. If they can conquer the entire Celestial Empire, then they can get more land and more labor for their trend!

Therefore, the people at the bottom of the foot basin, who were eager to get land and live a life of superiority, naturally stood on the side of the military unconditionally. Many people even couldn’t help but go on the field themselves and join the army to prepare to plunder the Celestial Empire!

They knew very well that as long as they could defeat and conquer the Celestial Empire, then the days they dreamed of would not be far away from them!

This fanatical war tendency allowed the foot basin to rapidly expand the total number of their troops from less than one million to 3 million in just half a year. At this time, the foot basin already had more than 9 divisions, and it was still increasing. It would soon exceed one hundred or even one hundred and fifty!

Once the war machine tasted the sweetness, it would be difficult to stop, at least it was impossible to stop by itself. If you want to stop it, you can only rely on external forces!

And this external force is the resistance of the Celestial Empire!

For the foot basin people, they fanatically support the war and fight on the battlefield in order to gain more benefits and live the life of superiority they dreamed of!

As for the Celestial Empire, they took up arms and rose up in resistance out of necessity. If they did not do so, the tragic end of the 20 million compatriots in the Northeast would be their future!

No one wants to be enslaved, especially by a bandit neighbor who has always coveted them.

The cruelty of the Foot Basin people has been revealed in the Northeast. In order to seize land, they let the soldiers burn, kill and loot, and even organized village massacres, turning the land that the Celestial Empire had worked hard to reclaim into a no-man’s land, and then they occupied it openly! The Foot

Basin people themselves also knew that their population was much smaller than that of the Celestial Empire after all, so if they wanted to rule the Celestial Empire, they could only use iron-fisted means, and this means was to massacre and eliminate the Celestial Empire’s population to make room for their own population.

Not many of the 20 million people in the Northeast died directly in the war, but many were slaughtered in the subsequent massacres, as many as millions of people. The rest either fled to the interior or gave up resistance and lost their land and became slaves of the Foot Basin people!

This miserable life has long been spread throughout the Celestial Empire through the mouths of refugees, allowing the 400 million people of the Celestial Empire to realize the cruelty of the Foot Basin people!

This is an insatiable, extremely bloody and brutal jackal. The appetite of this jackal is surprisingly large. It wants to eat the entire Celestial Empire!

If they cannot be stopped on the battlefield, then the fate of the Celestial Empire’s tens of millions of square kilometers and 400 million people will no longer be decided by themselves! If you don’t want to be a slave of a conquered country, don’t want to be slaughtered, and don’t want to be enslaved, then you can only take up arms, rise up and resist, and fight the invaders to the death!

Therefore, the enthusiasm of the Celestial Empire people to join the army is no less than that of the Foot Basin. In this case, the armies of the Celestial Empire and the Foot Basin are frantically expanding their armies. The Celestial Empire’s army at this time is close to five million. There are more than 1.2 million on the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu, and more than 500,000 in Jinling City!